Pest

 Beverly Cleary made me laugh so much as a kid.  RIP. 

The usual yoyo weather of March continues.  Work still very tiring, takes everything I have every day to keep up.  The garden slowly blooming in ripples of color and troughs of green. Everything small, a bit sparse, but welcome. 

More dental work done, on both of us. No results back on our covid study participation, hoping for a letter either Friday or Monday. 

Keeping a wary eye on the news. I remember just out of high school hearing about how corporations were so big no government would be able to contain them, international crime more dangerous than avowed terrorists. And now all the vultures coming home to roost. 

Dylan found a new author, and I've read her second book with great pleasure. Starting the first one today.  Well, that's the way it is when I rely on library books, I'm used to it. Who Is Vera Kelly? by Rosalie Knecht.

Colorful

 I've been looking for a red wind breaker/raincoat for many years.  I'd pretty much given up, not wanting the odd reds or bright pinks I could find. Then a catalogue came, and there was the same style I used to have, the example in a bright clear green. I really was going to go for the navy blue, having decided I'd never find the right red ever again.  I don't wear green usually, the green kept saying "you know, I'm a very pretty green..." So, I thought what the hell. 

Got it home, wore it out. Then I realized. 

It's the same green as the House, Monet's Garden. 

I feel a bit silly. I still like it, and it's good to have more color in my life. I just wish I'd realized it sooner. 

Not big on matchy-matchy generally.  I'm sure House doesn't mind. So that's alright then. 

Hyacinth

 One hyacinth given as a housewarming, 

is now five hyacinths. 

Each unique. 

Duvet

 Enjoying my duvet for a change. Probably due to the sunbeam.

Usually they prefer Dylan's, probably because it is an extra warm one, and they do love sitting on him.  Eleanor took to it immediately. Zeppo still a bit freaked out by the fluffiness. He seems to prefer hard surfaces to overly soft ones. 

So loving this bedding style. Both warm enough, cool enough, no weight on my feet to cause spasms, no waking each other up by pulling covers off each other. 

We've been watching Richard Osman's House of Games, and one of the prizes is often a duvet set. I'd sort of heard about this before, and this spurred me to do a little research. SO glad I did.  

Zeppo seems to be seeking me out just to be petted this week. Came up while I was eating dinner and curled in beside me, again an hour later for a belly rub, and again when we went to bed - and I scritched the back of his neck for a long time. 

Awaiting more apparent garden progress, but it's been a bit slow with colder weather.

Knuckled

 

Rascal

 Oh, March.  You rascal. 

Potentia

They took our blood and

Spittle. Antibody search. 

Two more data points.
 

Study

 A letter marked to Resident doesn't always get opened. It took a moment to register that we were randomly chosen to answer a survey on the troubles of the past year, and give our spit and blood to be tested. I would have volunteered in the vaccine studies, except that they didn't want health care workers - just in case. We go in Saturday, and give our data points. 

 Wearing masks. 

I'm really glad to be part of this. 

Lilac

 It rained well here last evening, I caught the last few drops as I drove home. The garden is pleasantly damp and happy.  More and more little early purple flowers are showing their heads. I put down lentils, red lentils in a bag from the grocery store, for nitrogen and pretty wee flowers. And they are wee, and very pretty. 

Realized that the war against the hedge has gone too far.  My neighbor cut it down, on my behalf, a year or so ago, and two or three of the main trunks were well dead. I dug them out, from among the rampant morning glories, and the gap was large and sad. Went to the garden center down the street, found a lilac bush, and with his permission, planted it along the boundary of our properties. 

The Hedge does flower, and it's not a pleasant aroma at all. Lilac will smell better. 

I thought about putting in a tall pampas grass, but this will, I think, be better. 

Pie

 Ok, well, I have been gardening.  Lots of raking up the dead stuff and finding the life beneath. 

These irises are tiny, maybe 6". Hopeful little things.

  

And these two are a solid force for treats. 

Happy π day.  Ok, that's all I got right now. I will be back, though. 

Vaccine

May we all do the Vaccine Dance together soon.